Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953

Dong, Ruiqing, Li, Junjian, Yang, Hui & Zhang, Chuntian, 2024, Three new species and two newly recorded species of Tachininae from Tibet, China (Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Tachinidae), ZooKeys 1191, pp. 215-235 : 215

Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953

Fig. 7B, D, F, H

Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953: 154. Type locality: Myanmar: Kachin, Kambaiti.

Nemoraea echinata : Crosskey 1976: 198. Chao et al. 1998: 2028. O’Hara et al. 2009: 159. O’Hara et al. 2020a: 741; 2020b: 946.

Material examined.

China - Tibet (= Xizang) • 1♀ (SYNU-XZ 210023); Rikaze, Yadong County, Yadong , Gajvsi temple; 3286 m elev.; 27°48'N, 88°90'E; 29.VII.2021; C.T. Zhang & X.Y. Li leg.

Diagnosis.

Head and thoracic dorsum with golden-yellow pruinosity. Eye covered with dense hairs. Frons of about 0.5 (male) or 0.6 (female) times of eye width; parafacial nearly bare; upper part of head usually with only 1 row of black setulae behind postocular setae. Antenna with postpedicel 4-5 times as long as pedicel; longest aristal hairs at most as long as aristal diameter. Presutural setae 3 and dorsocentral setae 4; apical scutellar seta absent. Lower calypter with long hairs dorsally on posterior half. Legs black. Fore tibia with 2 posterior setae; mid tibia with 5 anterodorsal and 1 ventral setae; hind tibia with 4-5 anterodorsal setae. Abdomen ovate, dark, black, with many erect setae and hairs, densely covered with gray or indistinct pruinosity on tergites. Abdominal syntergite 1+2 medially extending back to hind margin, without median marginal setae.

Distribution.

China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet; Fig. 8 ), India, Myanmar.

Figures

Figure 7. A-D Nemoraea javana (Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1895) ♀ E-H Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953 ♀ A, B, E, F bodies, dorsal and lateral views C, D, G, H heads, anterior and lateral views.

Figure 8. New distribution records of Tachininae from Tibet, China. 1, 2 Leskia latisurstyla Zhang & Dong, sp. nov. 3 Trichoformosomyia cuonaensis Zhang & Li, sp. nov. 4 Tachina jilongensis Zhang & Dong, sp. nov. 5 Nemoraea javana (Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1895) 6 Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953.